Hat fastener



Sept. 9, 1941. J. H. BROWN HAT FASTENER Filed June 18, 1941 I v 14)c-vvtm Jwqak EZmwn/ Vi i emu-

Patented Sept. 9, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HAT FASTENER JosephH. Brown, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application lane 18, 1941, Serial No. 398,687

(or 1s2 e1) Claims.

The invention concerns a hat fastener adapted to be secured to a part ofthe hat, preferably one at each side thereof, and slidable relative tothe means which holds it in place, so that it may be thrust inwardly toengage the hair or retracted in order to remove the hat.

The invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a view showing the device applied to a hat.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view on a larger scale of the device.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view (through the curved plate) on line3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a plan View of the device with the parts in the position ofFig. 2.

In the drawing I indicates a two pronged hair pin with a connectionbetween the prongs at one end, this connection consisting of a handle orfinger portion 2 at one end in the form of an enlarged loop.

The prongs of this fastener are slidable through guides 3 struck up froma sheet metal member 4. These guides are in the form of small loops, twoin number, one for each tine or prong of the hair pin proper. The prongsor tines of the hair pin are under tension, causing them to be urgedapart. This tendency is derived from the character of the wire of whichthe pin is made and the integral loop connection between them acting inthe nature of a spring stressing the tines to have a normal tendency toseparate. The sheet metal plate 4 has means for fastening it to thesweat band of the hat or to the hat itself, said means consisting ofprojections or tongues 5 integral with the plate and pointed so that thedevice can be attached by forcing these projections through the hat bandor other part of the hat adapted to receive them when adequate Pressureis applied. The projections when on sale or before the device isattached to a hat lie substantially in the same plane in which the plate4 lies so that the fastener can be packed flat. When the device is to beattached to the hat, however, the prongs 5 are thrust through the hatband after they have been bent in positions substantially at rightangles to the plate 4 which carries them. The prongs are readilybendable and are of a form which will insure their bending at the rightpoint, said form involving the recesses 0r bends at 6 where saidprojections join the ends of the plate 4.

The plate 4 with its guide eyes or loops and with its pointedprojections may be struck up from sheet metal stock into the desiredshape ready for attachment to the hat by simply bringing the pointedprojections into the right angular positions, above mentioned. The mainplate 4 is curved longitudinally to conform to the shape of the side ofthe head of the wearer so that a comfortable snug fit is obtained.

As above intimated the tines of the hat pin have a normal tendency tospring away from each other and this causes frictional pressure betweensaid tines and the guide loops or eyes of the main plate and by reasonof this pressure the hat pin will be held against dropping away from.

the positions to which it has been adjusted, and therefore the hat willremain, under ordinary circumstances, in the position to which it hasbeen adjusted. V

The tendency of the tines 0f the fastener to spread apart is utilizednot only to tend to hold the pin per se in the adjusted relation to theplate 4 when fastened to the hat, but it also causes the tines to spreadwhen thrust upwardly into the hair of the wearer, and thus assume anupwardly and outwardly adjusted position which will tend to hold the hatin its intended position of adjustment. The ends of the tines areenlarged as shown at 1 to act as stops to prevent the tines from passingthrough the guide eyes or loops and thus separating from the plate 4.

The device is intended to be used, one at each side of the head.

The pointed prongs after being forced through the hat band arepreferably turned inwardly towards each other and thus occupy spaceopposite and on the outer face of the main plate.

Furthermore, the pointed prongs or tongues of the main plate are so bentat their points of juncture with the main plate that the direction inwhich they are intended to be bent is in dicated by the location of thenotch or recess 6 in its side.

By thus making the tongues to indicate by their form the direction inwhich their bending should take place in order to properly mount them inthe hat, the devices can be conveniently stored fiatwise andconveniently exhibited on sale in said substantially flat form, thetongues or pointed projections remaining in substantially the same planein which the main part of the plate lies.

While I have described the main plate with its projecting tongues asbeing flexible, I wish it understood that said plate with its integrallyconnected tongues will stay in the position in which they are bent withsufiicient strength and firmness to perform their intended function ofholding the device in place.

Thus when the bendable tongues are bent into position substantially atright angles to their initial positions, they will maintain their newpositions with sufficient firmness in order that they may be thrustthrough the hat band, and when bent against the said band to clasp thesame between themselves and the main body of the plate, they willmaintain this new position to'hold the device securely in place. Thetongues 5 atthe ends of the plate are of reduced width relative'to theplate 4 from which they project,

I the width being that dimension measured from 1 the upper to the loweredge as viewed in Fig. 2.

I claim: I 1. A hat fastener comprising a sheet metal 1 plate having aprojection extending from each I end thereof, said projections being ofreduced width relative to the width of the plate, said projections'beingadapted to be thrust through a part of the hat and-being bendable to'clasp said hat part, loops integral with the plate and ex- 2.. Ahatfastener according to claim 1 in which I the bendable tongues at theends of the sheet metal plate initially lie in substantially the sameplane with the plate. r

3. A hat fastener according to claim 1 in which the tongues projectingfrom the ends of the plate are connected to the said ends of the plateby a bent portion presenting a recess on the side face of said tonguewhere it joins the said plate.

4. A hat fastener having a sheet metal plate slightly curved from end toend, tongues integrally connected with and projecting from the ends ofsaid plate and lying in substantially the' plate having on its concaveface loops project-' ing therefrom and a hair pin located on the concaveface of said plate and having its tines guided in said loops,substantially as described.

JOSEPH H. BROWN.

